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 308 MTDDLETilE — MIDDLESEX. MIDDLHBIE. /.''., " ])OUOLAS OF KlNMONT, MlDDLEME AN'l) DoHNOCK," B;U0liy [S.] Douglas), cr. 1882, with the Maruuessate, aud, again, 10S4, with the Dukedom OF Q0EENSBRBB* [S.J, which »(■') MIDDLESEX (county of.) Earldom. J. The Kt. Hon. Sib Lionel Chan-field, yr. s. of j 1622 Thomas CtUKFIKLO, id London, Citizen anil Mercer, by Martha, da. of Vincent Randii.i., also of London, Citizen and Mercer, was bap. 13 March 1574/5, at .St. Michael's, Bassishaw ; became free of the Mercers Company and of the Merchant Adventurer.-, tradiug, as such, with consider- able success; Receiver of Customs for the counties of Dorset and Somerset, 1605; Lieut, of Dover Castle, 1613 ; knighted at Oatlauds, 4 July 1613 ; Surveyor Gen. of the Customs, 1613-24; was nominated Sheriff of Loudon both in July liill ami June 1015, but excused from serving ; M.l'. for Hythe, Kil l, and for Arundel, 1621-22; one of the Masters of Request, 1016; Keeper of the Great Wardrobe, 1618-22; Master of the Court of Wards and Liveries, 1619-24 ; Ch. Commissioner of the Navy, 1619-24 ; l'.C, 1620-25 ; a Commissioner of the Treasury. Jan. to Dec 1«20. In all these departments he effected great reforms( h ) and was accordingly cr., !' July 1021.( c ) BAHON Cli.VNITELU of Cranficld, oo. Bedford. He was from Sep. 162] to May 1021 Loud HIGH TiieasukKH, being cr., 10 Sep. 1622, EARL OF MIDDLESEX, but, two years later, he was found guilty of mismanagement of the offices of (1) the Wardrobe (2) the Customs (3) the Ordnance, and (1) the Court of Wards, being sentenced, 13 May 1624, to lose all his offices, c., fined £50,000, and (for two weeks) imprisoned in the Tower. 1 ' He was, however, restored to his seat in the House of Lords, 1 May 1010. He »!. firstly, about 1596, Elizabeth, da. of Richard SHEPHERD, of London, Citizen and Grocer, to whom he had been apprenticed. She , in Westm. Abbey. Will dat. 21 Aug. 1012, pr. 1 Oct. 1646. Funeral certificate in Public Record office. His widow possibly re-married Sil ( — ) ANDEItsox.(v) She il. 3 ami was A» r. 12 Feb. 1009 70, in We.-tm. Abbey. Her nunc, will (within a year of her death) as of St. Giles in the fields, pr. 12 June 1070, and 1 Nov. 1071. U. 1645. .2. James (Cranfield), Maul of Middlesex, Sec, b. ami h., by second wife; bap. 27 Dec. 1021, at Chelsea; styled Lord CUANI'IEI.n, 1022-15 ; M.P. for Liverpool, April to May 1010 ; sue. to the parage, 6 Aug. U'15. He took the part of the Bail, by whom in 1040, he was made Lord Lieut, of Staffordshire, and in 1047, Keeper of Kingswood forest ; was imprisoned in 1047, for acting against the army ; Commissioner from the Lords to the King, 1 Aug. 1618, and Joint Commissioner at the Conference of Newport, Sep. to Nov. 1048. Ho (") See also vol. iii, p. 100, note " b," siii " Douglas." " In the Household alone he effected an annual saving of £23,000 ; in the Wardrobe he saved the King at least £14,000 a year." [Nat. Ilimj.] ( c ) It was supposed that he would have been appointed Lord Chancellor, in succession to Bacon, against whose abuses he (in 1621) had tukcu a prominent part. ('I) "The belief that he had been hardly treated was very general," and the impeachment of the Duke of Buckingham, two years later, was unfavourably compared with this one. By that Duke " he complained in his letters, Chelsea House was forced from him, like Naboth's vineyard, and £5,000 in addition demanded." .iit. Hioij. Fuller in his " WorUiitt" calls him, "A proper person, of comely presence, cheerful, yet grave countenance, and surely a solid and wise man." (') Among the entries of burials at St. Martin's in the fields occurs on 28 Feb. 1005770, " Vomititm Middxir H D'ua Andcrtim," which, however, possibly refers to two distinct persons. This is one of many instance! where baptisms, marriages, and burials, are recorded in a parish with which the parties were connected, such record not necessarily implying that the event took place in that parish.